On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 11:49, you wrote: > I'm baffled by the way cups is (mis)behaving on my wife's system. > > Background: She's got my old PII-266 running RedHat 7.3, kernel just > updated to 2.4.20-19.7. The printer is a LaserJet 4L on /dev/lp0. Until > a few nights ago everything was fine; indeed both of us used the > LaserJet as our main print device. After a peculiar crash followed by a > thoroughly inept attempt at recovery by me, her Linux partitions were > destroyed and I had to start all over. Reinstalled RH 7.3 from the CDs > and updated relevant files via RHN. > > Now cups won't let us print anything EXCEPT the test page from the cups > admin screen, which prints perfectly. Trying to print from an > application on her machine or mine (on the network), nothing happens. > Trying to print from a terminal window, I get the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <her home directory>]# man lpr | lpr > Status Information: > sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 > cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused > Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <her home directory>]# > > If I print a test page from the cups admin screen, it shows up as a > job. If I try to print from an application or a terminal window, it > never shows up in the job queue. > > I tried switching her to LPRng and - lo and behold - it works. Perfect > test page, good output from applications. > > Switch back to cups, still no go. Switch back to LPRng, now get the > same error as with cups! Wipe the printer out in the RH LPRng > configuration GUI tool, reinstall it and we're printing OK again with > LPRng. > > I tried uninstalling the cups package, downloading it again from RH and > reinstalling, but this changed nothing. > > I tried rebooting into the 2.4.18-3 kernel which she was running prior > to the crash, and this also changed nothing. > > We're using cups 1.1.14-15.4 which is apparently the most recent version > that is compatible with RH 7.3. I'm using the same version on my > machine with no problems. > > Can anyone help me get cups going again for her?
First establish whether the cups cups daemon is running [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups status cupsd (pid 1248) is running... If not try to start it:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ su Password: ***** # /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start # ^D $ lpr -Plp /etc/passwd # For example. You can also check out and configure cups via its www interface:- http://localhost:631/ -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
